NOTE AS TO THE POSSIBLE MEANING OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

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  • J. L. MORENO Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/npttye15

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PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

It is quite a challenge to the sociometrist and sociatrist to let his scientific caution fall by the wayside and speculate as to how the findings in small groups can be applied to large human societies. I have called group psycho-therapy "an American idea born in Vienna," but why did it develop in the United States, failing to take root in Western Europe or Soviet Russia? It may be that the American nation suffers as a group from a sociatric sickness which I have called "low cohesion!" If we could chart the nation's sociogram we would probably see millions of small groups, each gravitating around its own center, the connections between them being in a majority of cases, missing, weak, or distorted

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2024-11-21

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Vol. 3 No. 2 ,3 (1950): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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